On the average,2.4 customers per minute arrive at any one of the checkout counters of a grocery store.A hypergeometric distribution can be used to find out the probability that there will be no customers arriving at a checkout counter.

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A hypergeometric distribution is used to describe the probability of drawing a certain number of objects of a certain type from a population without replacement. It is not suitable for describing the arrival rate of customers at a grocery store checkout counter. Instead, the Poisson distribution is commonly used for modeling the arrival rate of customers, where the mean arrival rate is given by lambda. In this case, lambda is 2.4 customers per minute. The probability of having no customers arrive at a checkout counter in a given minute is then given by e^-lambda, which is approximately 0.0907.

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